The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-16

people value his alliance with England
more than the Ameer himself. The in
surgents in Afghanistan have blocked
the roads between Candahar and India.
Salt Lake Property Suit.
Suit has been brought in the TerritOr
ial Supreme Court, Salt Lake City, to
escheat the Mormon Church properly TO
the United States fund OF the Territory,
as provided in the Edmunds-Tucker bill
OF last winter The value set on the
property IS 100000 real estate, and
$I,O00,O 900 personal property Under
the United states laws no church in any
Territory is allowed to hold more than
$4,000 worth Of property. The appoint
ment Of a Receiver is asked ior, to
whom all persons having any property
of the church be directed TO turn over
the same. The hearing OF the case is set
Tor September 18th next.
The BruaIiiIde.
The schooner-yacht Brunhilde, John
J. Phelps Captain and owner, arrived in
New York harbor July 3lst, two years
and one month from New London,
Conn, having circumnavigated the
globe. She reached San Francisco OH
July /, 1886. The trip around the Horn
has taken ever since, but it has been ex-
tended by a great deal OF cruising. The
Sandwich Islands, Society Islands,
Eastern Islands, san Juan Fernandez
and Valparaiso were visited on the
Pacific side, and Montevideo, Rio Jan
Giro and the West indies after rounding
into the South Atlantic
Fire AT Cincinnati.
\ displtch from Cincinnati, July 29th,
saws: Six acres OF ground, covered by
couple OF brick building and number
of frame shant.es, extending from the
Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton rail-
road To the foot ui the hill, and from
Gest street north on both sides of State
street, was burned over this afternoon.
The burned district was known as Stop
town, and the tenement houses on it
were mostly occupied by poor families.
The fire burned SO fercely and rapidly
that none OF the household goods were
saved. and even cows were cremated in
the various stables. The fire covered
the most space ever swept by flames in
Cincinnati The loss amounts in all to
800, 900. Probably one hundred people
are HOMELESS.
Famine in Turkey
BosroN, July 30th.--The American
Board OF Commissioners for Foreign
Missions received a cablegram from the
treasurer of the anime relief fund at
saying Fifty thousand
people about Adena have nothing to eat
The number is increasing, and other
towns are as helpless"
Adena is the center OF the Ciliciau
plain, ordinarily so fertile, but this year
barren on account of drought.
4 little over $4,000 has already been
in this country for the relief
Of the starving people, and further con-
tributions are greatly needed, and may
be forwarded to Langdon S. Ward,
Somerset street, Boston. Gifts can be
sent by telegraph so that in three days
they will buy bread.
miscellaneous.
A dam burst on the mountain at /
Pa, August LIST, letting the /
water down into the village OF Parsons. /
The whole town was flooded and the /
people had to fee for their lives. Four
bridges were washed away and much .
other damage done. At Laurel the (
waters caught fifty loaded coal cars and .
dashed them down the mountain side /
ike kindling wood. The losses will f.
probably reach 1920 900.
An immense migration movement is
in Central Russia Peasants
and farmers are going in large numbers
to Western Siberia, where free pasture
and arabic lands abound. The move
nent threatens 10 result in a serious ag-
ricultural crisis. 1t is reported the Gov
ernment is about to stop the migration.
Owing to the death OF Signor Depretis,
he Italian Prime Minister, the other
OF the Cabinet have rendered
heir designations. Signor Crfspi, Min
ster OF the Interior in the Depretis Gov
'rnment, will form a new Cabinet.
which will be composed Of members Of
he present Ministry
4 fire occurred at Pittsburg, July 3Ist.
~ which the glass manufacturing firms
+ :. Mckee K Co. and KinsOn & Co.
ustained total losses of $3.50, 900; insur-
nee, $4,000. Several hundred men
ill be temporarily thrown out OF en-
loyment.
The British ship Star OF Scotia, Cap
hin Suffer- from San Francisco April
eth for Queenstown, has been wrecked
f the Falkland Islands The first ohi-
ar and seven of the crew were drowned. :
General Boulanger telegraphed to his
,conds on August 1st to insist upon
cry making an immediate apology for
is reference 10 the General in his
peech at Epinal, and, in the event OF
is refusal, to continue preparations for
duel.
The town of Sassaowa in Galicia has
cen destroyed by fire Fifteen corpses
ave been recovered from the ruins and :